Thanksgiving's Downside

 

The Israelis in their struggles in the Middle East have cleverly raised the feminist question.

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My favorite question from the press so far was that raised by the BBC woman who asked if the willingness shown by the Israelis to surrender many Palestinians for few Israelis in prisoner swaps was evidence of Israeli bigotry.

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Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend. The world is now just a little less safe.

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Thanksgiving's Downside

Events like Thanksgiving are upsetting to the Left because they imply community, a violation of the Left's template of division and isolation. The basic element of society, according to the Left, is conflict, most recently the effort of the oppressed to right themselves after some oppressor's damage and continued ill wishes. The essence of community is conflict. This insane oxymoron is a repackaging of the disastrous Marxian homicidal mania of the recent past. 

However, the invention of America solved the ancient problem of inequality by formalizing the equality of all men regardless of their individual histories and characteristics. This was done by fiat, not by destroying the cultural/political/social outliers.

Somehow this astonishing, optimistic, true egalitarianism cannot be accepted by fractious, angry, rebels-without-a-cause who insist on fighting over problems that America has already solved.